Best Biddies Poems

A determined chicken collector and her obliging spouse
Reside in a small town, inside a quaint sort-of HEN house
High upon a mountain top covered with melting...

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I don’t have a drinking problem
I drink til I get drunk
Then I stumble home
    Where I live all alone
   ...

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you gotta join in the struggle for the ill-gotten gains
of the movers and the shakers on the streets Wall and Main
we will take what we...

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The rooster led his harem forth
into the garden for a party
There they would dine from mother earth
Aphids on roses, worms they ate harty

Queen Ann's lace...

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STILL LIFE - WITH FRUIT, DOILY AND BOTTLE

They spill!
Of her he’d had his fill
He tipped the table
Dumped!
Her oranges, apples, pears
Surprised the tea cup biddies -
Set...

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This poem was entered in Julia Ward's contest but I've decided not to write for her.

At the footbridge I pause for one last glance
at naysayers...

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SHE RAN AWAY WITH THE CIRCUS

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Little Buddy, Chick Daddy

Little buddy could cluck like a hen.
So, young biddies went running to him.
He would lift up his wings.
Come for warmth, he would...

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The foggy hollow reverberates
with rooster's echoes
Cackling hens sing a laying tune
Biddies for their true beau

Horizonal wispy white clouds
Lie upon the blue sky
Birds of the morn...

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Charlie’s got an old bar outside of town.
It’s pretty seedy and plenty run down.
Characters who don’t lightly suffer fools
go there to drink whisky and to...

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Peonies and cannas are blooming along my walk
While birds are tweeting messages to one another,
I suspect the small animals are taking care of young
A newborn...

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She dresses so young!
She should dress her age!
She looks ridiculous.
I scoff at these old biddies.

If any of them looked half as good
They would be dressed...

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So I drove the van down a walking trail,
and slid into a ditch.
The Officers with voices hale
Began the walkers to regale
With "Oh, no, he won't...

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Who is afraid of the “Big Bad Hen”?
“Not I!” exclaimed Sassafras, 
My bear cub chasing chihuazer,
Just before she got a little too close
To that loud...

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They talked about their great grandbaby as if she was a movie star.
I was sick of smiling at her pictures, and I could not walk...

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